Art for the middle classes : America's illustrated magazines of the 1840s /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Patterson, Cynthia Lee
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2010]
Subjects:	Middle class > Books and reading > United States > History > 19th century. Periodicals > Publishing > United States > History > 19th century. Art and the middle class > United States > History > 19th century. Magazine illustration > United States > 19th century. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction. The Philadelphia pictorials and American visual culture in the 1840s
"From the burin of an American artist": artistic production in the 1830s and 1840s
"Superior embellishments" : innovations to the graphic arts in the Philadelphia pictorials
"The fluttering host of many-colored competitors" : regional imitators in the Northeast, West, and South
"Illustration of a picture" : American authors and the magazine embellishments
"Engravings from original pictures" : competing for audiences and original art
"A mezzotint in every number": battling for embellishers, battling over art
Conclusion. The ascendancy of New York, and market stratification.